Is your parts ordering process still governed by static spreadsheets and reactive decisions? Inventory Capital Solutions (ICS) by FDC is the definitive, next-generation tool designed to fundamentally optimize your stock replenishment. It shifts the entire process from a reactive, compliance-focused routine to an intelligent, high-precision strategic advantage. This powerful application ensures your primary inventory replenishment is not just compliant with supplier mandates, but is actively optimized for your business’s unique financial and service goals by mastering the complexity of future-dated orders.
Key Features: Mastering Future-Dated Orders
Keep reading to learn how ICS gives you precise control over your forward commitment to inventory:
Future-Dated Order Management: This critical feature allows you to plan, create, and submit orders with a future receipt date, turning today’s calculated forecast into a guaranteed future commitment. You maintain visibility over your financial commitments without immediately impacting current inventory or cash flow.
Forecasting and Precision Ordering: ICS employs a proprietary "Tournament Method" forecasting algorithm. This sophisticated intelligence automatically tests multiple forecasting models against each other, selecting the highest-performing one to generate highly reliable and accurate order plans that feed your future-dated orders.
Dynamic Lead Times: ICS doesn't rely on static data. It dynamically calculates and adjusts lead times for parts, ensuring your future order dates are always realistic and optimized for current supplier and logistics performance.
Seasonal Intelligence: ICS automatically detects and applies seasonality patterns to your forecasts, preventing both stockouts during peak demand and costly overstocking during slow periods by strategically timing your future-dated deliveries.
Operational Control and Efficiency: The application provides advanced calendaring, the flexibility to manage both scheduled and unscheduled orders, and unlimited custom fields. This ensures a consistent, effective process for all analysts while significantly reducing manual effort and training time.
Strategic vs. Routine: By automating the creation of highly accurate future-dated purchase and consignment orders, ICS ensures your order plans meet defined volume goals, freeing up your team to manage exceptions rather than routine order creation.
Stop allowing spreadsheets to dictate your capital deployment. ICS equips your organization with the analytical rigor and automation needed to ensure optimal stock levels, on your schedule, every time.